Cockayne Hatley
General History

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Lysons' Magna Britannia
Hatley-Port or Cockayne-Hatley

In the hundred of Biggleswade and deanery of Shefford, is a small village two miles from Potton, on the borders of Cambridgeshire. It was anciently the estate of the Argentiens and Bryans. Sir John Cockayne, lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who died in 1427, became possessed of this manor, and made it his country-seat. From his family the village obtained the appellation, which distinguishes it from some neighbouring parishes likewise named Hatley in Cambridgeshire. The manor has lately passed by marriage to the family of Cust, and is now the property of Mrs Lucy Cockayne Cust. In the nave of the parish church is an altar-tomb, stripped of its brass plates, said to be the monument of Chief Baron Cockayne. There are several memorials of this family, from the year 1527 to 1739. In the north aisle is a monument of Sir Patrick Home, who married one of the Cockaynes, and died in 1627. Mrs Cust is patroness of the rectory.

Extract from Lysons' Magna Britannia being a concise topographical account of several counties of Great Britain by the Rev. Daniel Lysons, A.M., F.R.S. F.A. and L.S. Rector of Rodmarton in Gloucestershire and Samuel Lysons, Esq., F.R.S. and F.A.S. Keeper of His Majesty's Records in the Tower of London, 1806

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